PDF, 1.06 MB - Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

xxxxxxxxx
From: NEW YORK
To: MOSCOW
No: 687
Reissue (T910)
13 May 1944
On HELMSMAN’s[RULEVOJ][i] instructions GOOD GIRL[UMNITsA[ii] contacted
through AMT[III] a new group [C% in CARTHAGE][C% KARFAGEN][iv]:
[53 groups unrecoverable]
MAGDOFF – "KANT"[v]. GOOD GIRL’s impressions: They are reliable FELLOW-
COUNTRYMEN[ZEMLYaKI][vi], politically highly mature; they want to help with
information. They said that they had been neglected and no one had taken any
interest in their potentialities
[29 groups unrecoverable]
"STORM[ShTORM]"[vii]. RAIDER[REJDER][viii], PLUMB[LOT][ix], TED[x] and KANT
will go to TYRE[TIR][xi] once every two weeks in turn.
PLUMB and TED know PAL[PĒL][xii]. We shall let you have identifying
particulars later.
No. 373 MAYOR[MER][xiii]
Comments:
[i] HELMSMAN: Earl BROWDER.
[ii] GOOD GIRL: Elizabeth BENTLEY.
[iii] AMT: Presumably a mistake for John ABT. See also NEW YORK to
MOSCOW No. 588 of 29 April 1944. (S/NBF/T110).
[iv] CARTHAGE: WASHINGTON, D.C.
[v] KANT: Henry Samuel MAGDOFF.
[vi] FELLOW COUNTRYMEN: Members of a Communist Party.
[vii] STORM: Unidentified.
[viii] RAIDER: Victor PERLO.
[ix] PLUMB: Possibly Charles KRAMER.
[x] TED: Probably Edward Joseph FITZGERALD.
[xi] TYRE: NEW YORK CITY.
[xii] PAL: Nathan Gregory SILVERMASTER.
[xiii] MAYOR: Probably Iskhak Abdulovich AKhMEROV.
25 July, 1968
- 113 -